Education: Back to the Boycott

It was just a single stick of dynamite tossed through a window of the
Midway Elementary School on Campbells Creek Road at 3:30 one morning
last week, and it caused only about $1,500 worth of damage. But the
explosion, plus a renewed school boycott and a desperate trip to
Washington by a fundamentalist delegation, all served notice that the
textbook trouble in Kanawha County, W. Va., will be around for some
time.

As before (TIME, Sept. 30), the protests were led by ministers and
parents who object to texts that include passages by authors...